Is female masturbation assur/ frowned upon/ etc.? Also, what is assur for a husband to do with his wife (outside of hashchasas zera l'vatalah)? p.s. I am married and Orthodox (and woefully undereducated), if that makes any difference.

What does it mean to strive to be holy, kadosh, set apart? ow can we know true holiness and how is that possible in 2006? I know this sounds really ignorant, but I need some help here, please. Thank you

I am a B'nei Noachic and I was wondering if you could help me with some questions that I have. I want to thank you for your time and your help it is very much appreciated. In the Stone Edition of the Tanach, Isaiah 56:3 states: “Let not the foreigner, who has joined himself to HASHEM, speak, saying HASHEM will utterly separate me from His people’;” Also, in Everyman’s Tulmud by Abraham Cohen on page 63 states: “Hence even a Gentile who obeys the Torah is the equal of the High Priest’ (Sifra to xviii. 5).” And in Everyman’s Tulmud by Abraham Cohen on page 65 states: “To the Gentile who were not prepared to enter the fold of Judaism, a moral code, known as the seven commandments of the sons of Noah, was offered.” My question or questions are: Is the foreigner who has joined himself to HASHEM in Isaiah chapter 56 a full convert to Judaism or a B’nei Noach? If he is a full convert to Judaism and he is no longer considered a Gentile, then who is the Gentile who obeys the Torah that is equal of the High Priest, the B’nei Noach? Is a B’nei Noach joined to HASHEM? If so is it then permissible for a B’nei Noach to obey more of the Torah or is the B’nei Noach only joined to HASHEM by the seven Noahic commandments? Sincerely, Russell Kirk Waco, Texas

Dear sirs (or madams): I have heard it said that God has no son--both from the muslims and other followers of Judaism. However, I was reading the scriptures one day and found this verse in Proverbs (Mishlei) 30:4b: "...who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?" Not only that, what's even more odd is Isaiah's proclamation: "For unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called the Wonderful in council is God the Mighty, the Everlasting Father, the Ruler of peace." ...How can this be Isaiah's son? How can Isaiah give his own son the titles that belong to Yahweh? Isn't that blasphemy according to the Torah? I wouldn't think of calling Yahweh's true prophet a blasphemer for if he is a blasphemer, then how can he possibly ever hope to be Yahweh's spokesman? Wouldn't he be of the evil one if he stated such a thing? And since this is true, then how can he be Yahweh's true prophet if he speaks for the evil one? So...we have a young male child with the qualities of Yahweh being born to us--and who is this child? He can't be an ordinary human, can he? If so, then Isaiah is telling us lies and the whole Tenakh is erroneous (which is not true.) ...So, this lad appears to be a deliverer. But...what kind of deliverer? Yes, I know that he is to deliver us from evil, but what kind of evil? Yahweh promised a Messiah in the Garden of Eden--when the first parents disobeyed, the whole earth became sick. Cain killed his brother and the people continued to live in wickedness. The wickedness in their hearts came from the very first act of disobedience--the first choice to do evil. They chose of their own free will to create their own inner destruction! King David prayed, "Create in me a 'clean heart' oh Yahweh, and renew a 'right spirit' within me." Obviously, he was regretting his evil deeds against Father Yahweh and pleading for forgiveness of the stain that had come upon his heart. Moses, when talking with Yahweh, stated, "Do not remove your presence from us." Why did he say this if we had no evil intents within our hearts? Why did the priests make sure that they were holy and clean inside and out? We know of the special robes and magnificent rituals they went through in order to present themselves holy before Yahweh--but why? Yahweh wanted a clean heart--not just clean garments. Truly, Isaiah spoke the Truth when he stated, "Mend your heart and not your garments." Our hearts are full of evil--therefore, we MUST have a deliverer! The prophets prophecied of this kind of deliverer. Yahweh, in speaking through His prophet Malachi, stated that He was angry with the hearts of the people that they weren't worshipping Him in the way that He had taught them to worship--with pure hearts and clean hands. We can't offer sacrifices in the temple anymore to attone for sin--the temple was destroyed. Some say, "Do good deeds and that will suffice." No no, in the book of Deuteronomy (Devarim) 28, verse 1, it states that one must follow all the commandments in order to be pleasing to Yahweh. We can't follow all 613 commands! I can't; who can? Now, I have heard some say, "Well, we can only pray and hope Yahweh hears us"; but where is this in the Tenakh? Where? Father Yahweh required MORE then this from His followers; He wanted a pure heart too. The questions remain: 1. How can we explain the aforementioned claims of Isaiah? All we can conclude is that a son will be born and he will bear the titles of Father Yahweh. 2. King David prays for a clean heart in the Psalms and Father Yahweh DEMANDS it! How do we get a clean heart? Yahweh didn't make us this way in the beginning--if he wanted to make us in this way, then He would have made us that way in the beginning. We need a clean heart--where do we go for it? 3. The temple is destroyed--what now? How can 

Why are Jews sterotyped as stingy? When did this come about?